MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
reviews
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
Modern
improvements in
electronic educational technology have provided the means for
learners
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a variety of
subjects that
learning technology institutions
have to struggle with
today because learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can organizations
be assured that
the training provided by these
MOOC courses is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Duke University to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
handle problems like
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital education technology becomes more
available there is a
growing
need
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
promising new open education
undertakings.
Scholars want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
desideratum for
information
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational topics.
This sensational new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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